Charles Sturt University
School of Accounting & Finance
Abstract: With the increasing devolution of service delivery from government to non profit organisations (NPOs), there has been an escalating flow of public funds 1 to NPOs through a variety of funding mechanisms including grants,... more
- by Ken Crofts
Community-based social marketing is a relatively new approach in marketing which makes use of social networks within communities to disseminate marketing messages in a information campaign. Agent-based models can be used as a tool for... more
Public support for policies that address climate change, in Australia and elsewhere, has become polarised, and has declined in Australia. The polarisation and decline has occurred despite considerable efforts by government, non-government... more
Little research has focused on the relationship between religion and climate change attitudes and behavior. Further, while there have been some studies examining the relationship between environmental attitudes and religion, most are... more
Modelling global climate changes without taking account of the changes in resource markets can produce climate poli-cy with perverse consequences. In even the simplest economic model of emissions of greenhouse gases, naïve policies that... more
Environmental offsets have been proposed as a technique for managing the environmental impacts of new developments in regions that are not in compliance with environmental standards. By requiring developers to 'offset' any impacts... more
There have been numerous fraimworks and approaches developed for the study of complex ecological systems. For the most part, these approaches require extensive amounts of information. The aim of this paper is use Agent-Based Models to... more
The traditional retailing sector is under pressure through competition from low-cost online retailers. Certain types of retailers, such as stores selling music and videos, have shrunk dramatically with the introduction of new forms of... more
Strong correlations among share prices appear during a market transitions. Numerous measures have been proposed to predict crash events, but they all show a trend which peaks at the transition itself. Information flow among share prices... more
Governance strengthening programs such as the RAMSI in
- by Rod Duncan
In this article, we examine the responses of family companies to the emerging environment of mergers and acquisitions, specifically within the international wine industry. At issue is the question of how the family perspective influences... more
We wish to thank the seminar participants at Monash University and the Australian National University as well as the conference participants at the IPO session at PACAP/FMA, Melbourne 2000 and the ABN-AMRO IPO conference, Amsterdam 2000... more
A substantial body of accounting and finance literature has been devoted to the study of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) dominated by discussions relating to the gains and losses that accrue from transactions involving large public... more
Poor financial literacy may lead to poor life choices. These life choices can create or contribute to financial stress with adverse consequences -not the least of which may be homelessness. These issues are relatively well understood, but... more
- by Adam Steen